Living donor liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma: is surgeon a prognostic factor?
โ Scribed by Rajeev Sharma; Durgatosh Pandey
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 439 KB
- Volume
- 28
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0254-8860
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